
Natural voices are voices that sound human, whether from a person or synthetic form.

Before you start envisioning robots and cyborgs, press pause-you likely can’t tell the difference between a human voiceover or a natural-sounding synthetic voice. However, technology has flipped the switch on another form of voiceover: AI voices. Many companies used either in-house employees to record their content or outsourced voiceovers to recording studios. In the past, there was only one option for recording a voiceover: a human voice. For example, a healthcare company could use text-to-speech to voiceover their field training materials about preventing cardiac arrest in order to train their workforce with the latest best practices. Many companies use text-to-speech for learning and development content, training videos, and audio versions of transcripts, such as podcasts. Text-to-speech is a form of predictive technology that pronounces written words aloud, turning text into speech. In this article, we discuss what text-to-speech is, how it compares to actual human voiceovers, and how you can generate shockingly life-like natural voices with an online text-to-speech platform.

When you’ve watched a video online, have you ever considered whether the voiceover was actually a human voice? Sounds sci-fi, but these days, many companies rely on an emerging technology called text-to-speech to bring their voiceovers, scripts, and learning content to life.
